How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.