One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.