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

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.