Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

We are the other of the other

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

Be content to seem what you really are.