And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.