"Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground."
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
"striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."
"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."