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.

If you wish to write, write.

The best place to get help is from yourself.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.