If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.