The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

life without love, is no life at all

Life well spent is long.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.