One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.