Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...