When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.

My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

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.