The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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