Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

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?

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.