Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.