ANTONINUS3

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth.

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

Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. Short, therefore, is a man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act of life as though it were thy last.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldest watch narrowly.