Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.