Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning t….

Everything that happens, happens as it should..

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the wor….

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished..

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a….

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise..

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long..

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which….

No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intellige….

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them..

Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benev….

In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it ha….

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee..

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their o….

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness..

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?.

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be….

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour..

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed,….

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themse….

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe..