Choose your direction

When souls are great, the body wearies itself in pursuit of what they desire.

If a man's honor is not stained by baseness, then every cloak he wears is beautiful.

Do not live as if you had ten thousand years before you. Death hangs over you: while you live, while it is still in your power, be good.

If a man does not know to which port he is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Man's character is his fate.

The highest good is like water: it benefits all things without contending, and settles in the low places that people disdain.

In the happiness of the people lies the ruler's happiness; in their welfare, his welfare. His own pleasure is not his good — the good of the people is his good.

We must cultivate our garden.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.