How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is just what you are doing when you allow your indignation to rise at their wrongdoing; for after all, they are only following their own apparent concerns and interests. You say they are mistaken? Why then, tell them so, and explain it to them, instead of being indignant.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!