Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.