In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.