Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
Silence is safer than speech.
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.