Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.