You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will think; it is of no concern to us.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.