The best place to get help is from yourself.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

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.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.