there is but one way—disdain of the things that depend not upon ourselves.
XX.Remember that it is not he who strikes you or he who reviles you who does you an injury, but the opinion you have about these things, that they are injurious. Therefore when someone shall provoke you to wrath, know that you are provoked by your own conception. Strive then at the outset not to be rapt-away by the phantasm; for if you shall once succeed in gaining time and delay you will more easily master yourself.
XXI.Death and exile and all things that appear terrible, let these be every day before your eyes. But Death most of all, for so you will never feel any condition to be wretched, nor think any very greatly to be desired.
XXII.If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philo--
