Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.