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

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.