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| Seek not good from without: seek it from within yourselves, or you will never find it | | Uncategorized | |
| Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life | | Wishes | |
| So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated. | | Uncategorized | |
| The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. | | Philosophy | |
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| The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. | | Uncategorized | |
| The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. | | Uncategorized | |
| The man who is not satisfied with little will be satisfied with nothing. | | Uncategorized | |
| The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant | | Action | |
| The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. | | Uncategorized | |
| The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. | | Uncategorized | |
| The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing | | Uncategorized | |
| The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other | | Uncategorized | |
| The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. | | Uncategorized | |
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| There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. | | Happiness; Success | |
| To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. | | Uncategorized | |
| Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. | | Religion | |
| We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. | | Communication | |
| We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free | | Education; Freedom | |
