Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they have happened or because he would show a great spirit he is firm and remains unharmed. It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom.