Love the people with whom fate brings you together
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.