Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.