Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

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.

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.