When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.