All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.