Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.