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.

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

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.