Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.