Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
A man should be upright, not kept upright.
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.