Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

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

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.