Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.

All is as thinking makes it so

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.