The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.