Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have fo….

The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in ….

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker..

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, an….

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured..

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish..

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to le….

The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this ….

The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury..

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor..

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too..

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities ..

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury..

Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that b….

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It woul….

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around..

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your….

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for..

Nothing is evil which is according to nature..

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of ….