Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre still below your quota. You dont love yourself enough. Or youd love your nature too and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. They even forget to wash and eat.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.