You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'