The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

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