"To be stoic is not to be emotionless, but to remain unbroken by emotions."

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

"Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it."

"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."

"We begin to lose our hesitation to do immoral things when we lose our hesitation to speak of them."

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

"He who is brave is free."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"Man conquers the world by conquering himself."

"It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."