Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell

Think of God oftener than you breathe.