Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

...the infallible man does not exist.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.