Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.