That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of to-day's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession.

Do nothing against thy will, nor contrary to the community, nor without due examination, nor with reluctancy.