Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, “my true self is free. I cannot be contained.”
The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. ‘The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.’
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.
I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Submit to the fate of your own free will.
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.
Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
From my grandfather’s father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.