Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.