Silence is safer than speech.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.