It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But remember that they have their own distinct character, which is quite a separate matter from how we happen to regard them.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.