Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.