Life and Existence

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

We do not learn. And what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?