Do not call yourself a philosopher; show your principles by your actions.

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  If you are given the part of a beggar, play that part well too.

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  If you take on a part above your strength, you both disgrace yourself in it and neglect the one you could have filled.

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  In every act observe the things which come first and those which follow it, and so proceed to the act.

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  Your duty is to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

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  It is not he who reviles you or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion about these things as being insulting.

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  It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another nor himself.

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