The Man Who Doesn't Know

If I And My Two Children Cannot Move The Gods, The Gods Must Have Their Reasons.

It Were Well To Die If There Be Gods, And Sad To Live If There Be None.

Constantly Contemplate The Whole Of Time And The Whole Of Substance, And Consider That All Individual Things As To Substance Are A Grain Of A Fig, And As To Time The Turning Of A Gimlet .

Most Of What We Say And Do Is Unnecessary: Remove The Superfluity, And You Will Have More Time And Less Bother. So In Every Case One Should Prompt Oneself: 'is This, Or Is It Not, Something Necessary?' And The Removal Of The Unnecessary Should Apply Not Only To Actions But To Thoughts Also: Then No Redundant Actions Either Will Follow.

So Much Worse Are The Consequences Of Anger Than Its Causes.