I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Without a purpose nothing should be done.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.
Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
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.
Our thoughts is what our life make it
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.
Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe.
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which th...
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
To them that ask where have you seen the Gods or how do you know for certain there are Gods that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul and yet I respec...
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.