Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.