Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

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?

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

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?

No great thing is created suddenly.