Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world.

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.