Quotes

The universe is flux, life is opinion.

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 without intending it.

If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

"Let your occupations be few," says the sage, "if you would lead a tranquil life."

Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.