Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

Do not be ashamed of help.