Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Only the educated are free.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
No great thing is created suddenly.