He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?