If Your Heart Is Quite Set Upon

Does A Man Reproach Thee For Being Proud Or Ill-natured, Envious Or Conceited, Ignorant Or Detracting? Consider With Thyself Whether His Reproaches Are True. If They Are Not, Consider That Thou Art Not The Person Whom He Reproaches, But That He Reviles An Imaginary Being, And Perhaps Loves What Thou Really Art, Though He Hates What Thou Appearest To Be.

It Is Your Own Convictions Which Compels You; That Is, Choice Compels Choice.

Whatever You Would Make Habitual, Practice It; And If You Would Not Make A Thing Habitual, Do Not Practice It, But Accustom Yourself To Something Else.

When You Let Go Of Your Attention For A Little While, Do Not Think You May Recover It Whenever You Please.

Of Pleasures, Those Which Occur Most Rarely Give The Most Delight.