Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.