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

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.