A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Love the people with whom fate brings you together

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.