All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

No one wearies of benefits received.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.