All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.

Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

The wind plays its own music.

I kiss [her] even though I know that if you kiss a girl before you are married to her you might get AIDS.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

They managed to sleep together, but there wasn't enough for dreaming.

Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years.

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.