To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

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