It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

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