And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

Do not try to seem wise to others.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.