Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Once they've skinned you, there's no point in grieving over the wool.