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

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

God has made all men to be happy.