Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.