The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

"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."

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes... Each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound at every moment creates dense subtle forms.

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.

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

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