Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Only the educated are free.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.