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 all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.