Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

People exist for one another.