Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

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

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.