It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.

The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.