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.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

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

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God