Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.