The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.