Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Give full attention and devotion to each act.

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

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.