Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

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.

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

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.