We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.