“Remove the judgment, and you have removed the thought ‘I am hurt’: remove the thought ‘I am hurt’ and the hurt itself is removed.”

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current. No sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place.”

“Look behind you at the vastness of time, and before you, at another infinity. What is the difference between a child of three days and a Nestor who lived three generations?”