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

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.