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

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.