Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.