Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.