Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.