People don't do me much good.
Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night
One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.
How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?
When I had this concept ["You're All That"] that I'm not just a body with a mind, that I'm a spirit being, I'm a synergistically trying being, when I understood that, life began to come into focus.
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings
Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.