No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?