Failures are often the results of timidity and fears; disappointments are the results of bashfulness; hours of leisure pass away like summer-clouds, therefore, do not waste opportunity of doing good
If you would cure anger, Do not feed it. Say to yourself: ‘I used to be angry every day; Then every other day; Now only every third or fourth day. ‘When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
