Books are the training weights of the mind.
To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.