Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Love the people with whom fate brings you together

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?