As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

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

It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

If you wish to be a writer, write.