Confine yourself to the present.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day