Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

We are born for cooperation

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they do not exist, or if they have no care for humankind, then what is life to me in a world devoid of gods, or devoid of providence? But they do exist, and they do care for humankind: and they have put it absolutely in man's power to avoid falling into the true kinds of harm.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.