It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.