The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.