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

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.