Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard the idea of longevity and cease loving this life, instead committing these things to God and, believing that no one ever escapes destiny, to consider, with that in mind, how we may live the best possible life in the time that remains.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.