Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.