The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Some things are in our control, and others are not.
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
Only the educated are free.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the views which they take of them.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.