You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.