The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.
Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.
Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.