You Are A Principal Work, A Fragment

What Ought One To Say Then As Each Hardship Comes? I Was Practicing For This, I Was Training For This.

Not Things, But Opinions About Things, Trouble Men.

An Ignorant Person Is Inclined To Blame Others For His Own Misfortune. To Blame Oneself Is Proof Of Progress. But The Wise Man Never Has To Blame Another Or Himself.

A Soul Which Is Conversant With Virtue Is Like An Ever Flowing Source, For It Is Pure And Tranquil And Potable And Sweet And Communicative (social) And Rich And Harmless And Free From Mischief.

Give Me By All Means The Shorter And Nobler Life, Instead Of One That Is Longer But Of Less Account!