The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.