Stoic Virtue

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Regardless of our color, race and religion, we are brothers.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.