It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life is short. You must make the most of the present with the aid of reason and justice. Since it is possible that you may be quitting life this very moment, govern every act and thought accordingly.

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.