“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does o…” — Marcus Aurelius

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.