Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit
God has entrusted me with myself.
Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).