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.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Confine yourself to the present.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

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