A great mind becomes a great fortune.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle W...
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of...