The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Votes: 24
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it. Votes: 7
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. Votes: 0
Only the educated are free. Votes: 0
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. Votes: 0
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. Votes: 0
It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them. Votes: 0
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan. Votes: 0
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. Votes: 0
Silence is safer than speech. Votes: 0
God has entrusted me with myself. Votes: 0
If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write. Votes: 0
God has made all men to be happy. Votes: 0
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them? Votes: 0
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases. Votes: 0
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems Votes: 0
If you wish to be a writer, write. Votes: 0
A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope. Votes: 0
No great thing is created suddenly. Votes: 0
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. Votes: 0
Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen. Votes: 0
Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new. Votes: 0
It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless. Votes: 0
Difficulty shows what men are. Votes: 0
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account! Votes: 0
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them. Votes: 0
You lose only the things you have Votes: 0
Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure. Votes: 0
The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference. Votes: 0
Confident because of our caution Votes: 0
You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer. Votes: 0
It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united. Votes: 0
Act your part with honor. Votes: 0
To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own. Votes: 0
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things. Votes: 0
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit Votes: 0
Don't consent to be hurt and you won't be hurt â this is a choice over which you have control Votes: 0
If you wish to write, write. Votes: 0
You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. Votes: 0
Do not try to seem wise to others. Votes: 0