No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.