Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

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?

Confident because of our caution