Huperborea

All that is from [God] is full of Providence.

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity...

Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Remember this,—that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,—yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair’s-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.