Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.