Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

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

When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.