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

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.