The praise is not in the deed but in the way it is done.
To be master of one’s self is the greatest mastery.
One cause of the evils of our time is that we live after the example of others. We are not guided by reason but led astray by custom.
Money never made anybody rich.
Why did God create the world? He is good; a good being feels no aversion to anything that is good. Therefore He made the world as good as possible. Quoted from Plato.
Some of our time is filched from us, some is stolen outright, some passes unnoticed. But most reprehensible of all things is to lose it by mere negligence; and if you will note carefully, men spend a great part of life in doing evil, the greatest part in doing nothing the whole of it doing something else than they ought. Whom will you name that places any value on time? Who prizes a day? Who realizes that he is dying daily? For we err when we regard death as something in the future; a great part of it has already passed; the portion of our life that is behind us, death holds. Do, therefore, Lucilius, what you write that you are doing, husband every hour; you will be less dependent upon to-morrow if you seize to-day. Everything else belongs to others, time only is ours.
There is a great difference between not wanting to sin and not knowing how.
If thou wouldst get rid of thy vices keep out of bad company.
He worships God who knows Him.
No one commits wrongs for himself alone; he communicates them to others and is in turn led astray by others.