Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.

Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.