It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

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.

Act your part with honor.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.