And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.