Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.