Book 5 Quotes

“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.”

“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present: I am rising to the work of a human being.”

“That which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road.”

“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”

“Where a man can live, he can also live well.”

“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”