I consist of a little body and a soul.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Love the people with whom fate brings you together

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?