He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavours. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast…and one day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential.
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
But first consider how much more sparing and patient of hardship the poor are than we.
Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee.
Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.
Everyone’s life is a warfare, and that long and various.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
No great thing is created suddenly.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
