The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.