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

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

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.