"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think more accurately, to be less of a slave to your passions, to be more tranquil and self-possessed. Speeches are one t…"

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

"If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad."

"If you want to be rich, do not seek to increase your possessions, but to decrease your desires."

"If you want to be rich, do not heap up riches, but diminish your desires."