"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 you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ri…"

"Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well."

"Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but do not sell it for a small price."

"We are not to be disturbed by the things that happen, but by the opinions which we have of them."

"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."