Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.