Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

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.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.