A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

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

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.