At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

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

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.