Everything that happens, happens as it should.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.