It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.