‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.