In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

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.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.