"If you are going to write, be content to be unlearned. If you are going to wrestle, be content to be beaten. For if you are not content with these things, you will not write, nor will you wrestle."

"For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death."

"Freedom isn't secured by filling up on your heart's desire but by removing your desire."

"Some things are in our control and others are not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, prope…"

"To make a good man, you must first make a good citizen."