While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go