Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

Confine yourself to the present.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

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.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.