Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.