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

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.