Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
God has entrusted me with myself.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
No great thing is created suddenly.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.