We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Live each day as if it be your last.