“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you.”

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

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