“Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.”

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

“…praise does not make anything better or worse.”

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

“Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.”

“No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.”