I consist of a little body and a soul.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.