Give full attention and devotion to each act.
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.