"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your entire life. Do not let your thoughts range over all the various troubles which you have met and will meet, but in every present case, ask yourself, 'What is …"

"Even for a god, if he wishes to do good, he must do it through the medium of human beings."

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."

"What is evil? It is that which you have seen many times. And when you are about to be angry with anyone, remember that man is not evil, but only acts in error."

"The faculty of reason is the only one which can contemplate itself, and by itself distinguish truth from falsehood, and the real from the unreal."