Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.