Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.

Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.