- If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake
or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly
change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed
anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and
ignorance. - I do what is mine to do; the rest doesn’t disturb me. The
rest is inanimate, or has no logos, or it wanders at random
and has lost the road. - When you deal with irrational animals, with things and
circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are
rational; they are not. When you deal with fellow human
beings, behave as one. They share in the logos. And invoke
the gods regardless.
Don’t worry about how long you’ll go on doing this.A single afternoon would be enough.- Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and
the same thing happened to both. They were absorbed alike
into the life force of the world, or dissolved alike into atoms. - Think how much is going on inside you every second—in
your soul, in your body. Why should it astonish you that so
much more—everything that happens in that all-embracing
unity, the world—is happening at the same time?