The Wise Man Is Neither Raised Up By Prosperity

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

"The superior man is dignified, but does not wrangle."

"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity"

"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."

"The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm."

"The superior man does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything."