As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom ….

Let every action aim solely at the common good..

All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself..

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man.".

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action..

To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says….

Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee..

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight..

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equal….

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love..

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans..

No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is cur….

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor sh….

When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you m….

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms..

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds..

Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good..

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy..

People exist for one another..

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same..

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the univ….