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

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come u…

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.