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.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.