It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.

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

We are not to lead events, but to follow them.