| Material contact produces cold and heat, pleasure and pain. These sensations are fleeting and insubstantial; go through them unruffled.
II-14
The man who is not ruffled by these, who is brave, and the same in pain and pleasure, shapes himself for immortality.
II-15
Welcoming, with equanimity, pleasure and pain, acquisitions and losses, victory and defeat, get ready for battle; thus you shall not incur sin.
II-38
It is one's own thoughts and one's own an action that affect the fortunes of one's soul, not the alternating joy or sorrow that comes from without.
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