The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

Only the educated are free.