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.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.