Let goodness go with the doing.

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.