Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.