Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.
The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.
All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.