It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.
Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.