You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.