Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall.

Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.