We Can't Control The Impressions Others Form

What Is It To Be A Philosopher? Is It Not To Be Prepared Against Events?

The World Turns Aside To Let Any Man Pass Who Knows Where He Is Going.

With Ills Unending Strives The Putter Off.

It Is Not He Who Gives Abuse That Affronts, But The View That We Take Of It As Insulting; So That When One Provokes You It Is Your Own Opinion Which Is Provoking.

If What The Philosophers Say Be True, That All Men's Actions Proceed From One Source; That As They Assent From A Persuasion That A Thing Is So, And Dissent From A Persuasion That It Is Not, And Suspend Their Judgment From A Persuasion That It Is Uncertain, So Likewise They Seek A Thing From A Persuasion That It Is For Their Advantage.