Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.