The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.

This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?

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.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.