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

Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.