The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Let no act be done without purpose.

Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

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

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.