Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for 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.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.