Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.