...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.