You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.