What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.