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

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?