Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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.
Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God.
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.