Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre still below your quota. You dont love yourself enough. Or youd love your nature too and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. They even forget to wash and eat.

He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.

Everything is but what we think it.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.