How Soon Will Time Cover All Things.

How Easy It Is To Repel And Release Every Impression Which Is Troublesome And Immediately To Be Tranquil.

Failing To Understand The Workings Of One's Own Mind Is Bound To Lead To Unhappiness.

Bear In Mind That The Measure Of A Man Is The Worth Of The Things He Cares About.

All Those [events In History] Were Such Dramas As We See Now, Only With Different Actors.

Letting Go All Else, Cling To The Following Few Truths. Remember That Man Lives Only In The Present, In This Fleeting Instant: All The Rest Of His Life Is Either Past And Gone, Or Not Yet Revealed. This Mortal Life Is A Little Thing, Lived In A Little Corner Of The Earth; And Little, Too, Is The Longest Fame To Come - Dependent As It Is On A Succession Of Fast-perishing Little Men Who Have No Knowledge Even Of Their Own Selves, Much Less Of One Long Dead And Gone.