Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.