Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

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.

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

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

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

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.