Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.