By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?
Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.