“If you wish not to be disappointed in your desires, that is in your own power. Exercise, therefore, what is in your power.”

Enchiridion 14 [Higginson Trans.]

“No one is master of the ruling faculty of another.”

Discourses 4.5.4 [Carter Trans.]

“When death appears as an evil, we ought to immediately remember that evils may be avoided, but death is inevitable.”

Discourses 1.27.7 [Carter Trans.]

“A man ought to be at the same time cautious and courageous: courageous toward things which do not depend on our choice, and cautious in things which are within our choice.”

Discourses 2.1.40 [Long Trans.]