"As a man, you are a fragment of God; you have within you a part of Him. Why then are you ignorant of your own kinship, or do you not know whence you came?"

"For desire, suspend it completely for now. Because if you desire something outside your control, you are bound to be disappointed; and even things we do control, which under other circumstances would …"

"Don't seek to have things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you."

"Only the educated are free."

"For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death."