We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.