Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.