Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.