Act your part with honor.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

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

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.

If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.