Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.