Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry: -- I move not without Thy knowledge!

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.