"Don't seek to have things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you."

"Do not be concerned with what people think of you. You are not living for them."

"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…"

"If you are going to write, be content to be unlearned. If you are going to wrestle, be content to be beaten. For if you are not content with these things, you will not write, nor will you wrestle."

"The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men."