Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour..

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday..

Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing ….

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything..

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine..

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory..

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner ….

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal..

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin….

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually….

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours..

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just..

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..

Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the fl….

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 bu….

Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away..

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossibl….

Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the or….

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time..

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something.