Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.
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.
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this ‘reality’ as you view your dreams.
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.
Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.
The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something.
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.
That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.
The main thing we were made for is to work with others.
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.