Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

We are the other of the other

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

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.