And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

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.

Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.