If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

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

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.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

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.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.