If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: "I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own