So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

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

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.