Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.