God has entrusted me with myself.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.