When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new op….

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this..

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee..

Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get pro….

Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptines….

Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied..

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone..

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin with….

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after..

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life..

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain..

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effec….

Live each day as if it be your last..

My true Self is free. I cannot be contained..

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man..

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they ….

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good..

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one..

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres..

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the h….

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control..