Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.