What is understood must be practised, or it is not yet understood. These passages concern attention, habit, and the daily work of bringing a principle into conduct.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Confine yourself to the present.
