If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.