It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.