Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

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.