Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning.
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
How good it is when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this is the dead body of a bird or pig; and again, that the Falernia...
Anger cannot be dishonest.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
If thou workest at that which is before thee following right reason seriously vigorously calmly without allowing anything else to distract thee but keeping thy divine part pure as if thou should...
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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