"The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have."

"The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men."

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think more accurately, to be less of a slave to your passions."

"It is better to starve than to eat meat offered to idols."

"A man is not hurt by what happens to him, but by his opinion of what happens to him."