Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.