Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.