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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Only the educated are free.