Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.

Poverty is the mother of crime.