Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

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.

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.

Let every action aim solely at the common good.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.