Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

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

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily