Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

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

No man is free who is not master of himself.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.