When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.