"Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? How can any action be …"

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in that it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall."

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."