The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.