Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

How many things I can do without!

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.