If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

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.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life