"When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you."
"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."
"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."
"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."
"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too."