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

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

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.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.