Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.