Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you..

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly..

Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job..

Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expe….

Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of gr….

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them..

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you..

Truth and ceremony are two things..

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to….

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in ….

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms..

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind..

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability..

Let goodness go with the doing..

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers..

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to….

God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual part alone he touc….

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them..

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not..

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow..

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In e….