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

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

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

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