Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.

Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.

And more importantly - what we have chosen to do

If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.