If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

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.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.