No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.