Be content to seem what you really are.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'