Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.
What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
Men exist for the sake of one another.
Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Be content to seem what you really are.
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
While you live, while it is in your power, be good.