Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.