Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

Everything is but what we think it.

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Be content to seem what you really are.