Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.