We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.