"To live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense."

"Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou hast life, while thou art able, be good."

"The universe is a stream of things, a river of events. Some things are born, others die. Some things are in motion, others at rest. Some things are changing, others are constant. Some things are good,…"

"Consider the past—a change of empires, and you may foresee the future. For it will be the same kind of thing, and it is impossible for things to deviate from the present order: wherefore to contemplat…"

"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not embrace in your imagination all the various troubles which are likely to befall you, but rather, at every accession of trouble, ask yo…"