When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the a...
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no o...
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
If you would be a reader read if a writer write.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
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...
No man is free who is not master of himself.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has.
So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.