Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine..

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn..

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tra….

Enter others' minds and let them enter yours..

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

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.".

Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good..

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….

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

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….

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..

People exist for one another..

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

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….

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

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….

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

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..

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