The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

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

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.