Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to flow from himself into our bodies. And if you can act the same way, you will rid yourself of all suffering. For surely if you are not preoccupied with the body that encloses you, you will not trouble yourself about clothes, houses, fame, and other showy trappings.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.