... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.