What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

People exist for one another.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.