R etire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.
Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast select the best, and the…
Wipe out the imagination. Stop the pulling of the strings. Confine thyself to the present. Understand well what happens …