-We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.
-Do not waste the remainder of your life in thoughts about others.
-Accepting with all his soul everything that happens.
-A man should value the opinion only of those who openly live according to nature.
-Be not either a man of many words or busy about too many things.
-A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
-Enjoy that which you have found to be the best.
-If you diverge from this deity and succumb to appetites, you will no longer be able to concentrate on that good thing that is most deeply you own.
-Choose the better, and hold to it.
-Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains.
-If you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with you present activities according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happily.
-Let no act be done without a purpose.
-There is no retreat that is quieter or freer from trouble that a man's own soul.
-Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
-Things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; so our perturbations come only from our inner opinions.
-Nothing comes out of nothing.
-Bear this in mind, that within a very short time both you and he will be dead; and soon not even your names will be left behind.
-Look at things as they are in truth.
-Do not act as if your were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
-A thing is neither better nor worse for having been praised.
-Nothing is too early or too late if it is in due time for you.
-A man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts so that superfluous acts will not follow after.
-Make yourself all simplicity.
Your life is short. You must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice. Be sober in your relaxation.
-Acting justly is the only true wisdom.
-Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul.
-You are a little soul bearing up a corpse.
-Time is like a river made up of the events that happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away, too.
-The death of earth is to become water; and the death of water is to become air; and the death of air si to become fire, and reversely.
-Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are.
-Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
-I am unhappy, because this has happened to me. Not so: say, I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
-Say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason.
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