Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Confine yourself to the present.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.