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.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

We are born for cooperation

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.