The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

• Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
• Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
• Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
• He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
• Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
• Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
• Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
• Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.