The things ordained for you—teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you—treat them with love. With real love.

Thus thou must use to keep thyself to the first motions and apprehensions of things, as they present themselves outwardly; and add not unto them from within thyself through mere conceit and opinion.

Other people's mistakes? Leave them to their makers.

Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration? Does gold, or ivory, or purple? A lyre or a dagger, a rosebud or a sapling?

So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them?

Kingship: to earn a bad reputation by good deeds.

That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant--the act of a tyrant.