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

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go