Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.