How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.