"He who is in a hurry to do a thing, though he may do it well, yet he does it not well, for he has not given himself time to do it well."

"Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? How can any action be …"

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it, as she wills everything else."

"Or is it the case that all things flow from the one fountain, as all things are parts of one whole? Or is it the case that all things are parts of one whole, and that they all flow from the one founta…"

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."