Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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