What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.