Everything is but what we think it.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

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.

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?