In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

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?

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.