The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.