Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.