Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not".

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.