You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.