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.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.