While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.