Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

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

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'