If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

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

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything outside your control, train yourself not to worry about it.

Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.