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.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

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

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'