If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.