When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.
All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.
For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?
What we do now echoes in eternity.