It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

With ills unending strives the putter off.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

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.