In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.