"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

"To love only what happens, what was spun for you. What could be more appropriate?"

"Wipe out imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the ruling faculty in its own power."

"That which does not make a man worse, does not make his life worse."

"Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance, and be ready to let it go."