To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.