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

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

We are the other of the other

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

I consist of a little body and a soul.