A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

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.

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.