It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Silence is safer than speech.

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.

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.