He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

Each day provides its own gifts.