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.

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

All is as thinking makes it so

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.