We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.