What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

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.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.