If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.