Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.