Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life..

He who eats my bread, does my will..

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the ….

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts..

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the ser….

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the pro….

Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if some….

You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to….

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content..

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it..

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things...….

What we do now echoes in eternity..

A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another….

The gods sustain and guide all their works..

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, f….

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the o….

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is ….

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind..

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither cru….

Wherever a man lives, he may live well..

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it..