A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.