Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. 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. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.

What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.