Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.