Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Be content to seem what you really are.

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.