Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.