No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

Everything is mere opinion.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.