Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.
Let goodness go with the doing.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.
Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.