Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.
That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.
Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
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