Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?