If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.

When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.