This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.