Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself."

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”

External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.”

It’s time you realised that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.”

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”

I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.”

I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.”

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.”

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” 

Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—then your life will flow well.”

That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.”

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 have not mentioned these alone.'”