Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.