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

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.