Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.