Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

Think of God more often than thou breathest.

Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.

Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their comp…

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…

A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much bus…