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Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
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Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
All that is from the gods is full of Providence.
A man should be upright, not kept upright.
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.
If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole...
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.