While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?
A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.
Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.