Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Let no act be done without purpose.

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

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.