Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses.

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  Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes, but most of all death.

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  Do not spend too much time on the body; let your chief care be the mind.

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  Behave as at a banquet: take what is offered to you, and do not reach out for what has not yet come.

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  Take care of what you have been given as of something entrusted to you, not as something that is yours forever.

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  If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish by others.

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  If you are given the part of a beggar, play that part well too.

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