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

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.