Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.