Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.