In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.