What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason; and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness.

Let goodness go with the doing.