In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do

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

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.