First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

• We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
• When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
• The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
• Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
• First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
• It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
• To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
• It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
• Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
• Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.