The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

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

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.