From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.