When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?

Do not try to seem wise to others.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

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

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