If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.