Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

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

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they do not exist, or if they have no care for humankind, then what is life to me in a world devoid of gods, or devoid of providence? But they do exist, and they do care for humankind: and they have put it absolutely in man's power to avoid falling into the true kinds of harm.

What we do now echoes in eternity.