The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.