This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?
The man who doesn’t know what the universe is doesn’t know where he lives.
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?
Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.
For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?
The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse towards are wasting their time – even when hard at work.
The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.
All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
No one wearies of benefits received.
Give full attention and devotion to each act.
Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.