In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.