Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

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.

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

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

Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.