Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Silence is safer than speech.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
God has entrusted me with myself.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Only the educated are free.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
