Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual part alone he touches the intelligence only which has flowed and been derived from himself into these bodies. And if thou also usest thyself to do this, thou wilt rid thyself of thy much trouble. For he who regards not the poor flesh which envelops him, surely will not trouble himself by looking after raiment and dwelling and fame and such like externals and show.

How soon will time cover all things.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.