Analyze what exists, break it all down: material and
cause.Anticipate your final hours.Other people’s mistakes? Leave them to their makers.- To direct your thoughts to what is said. To focus the mind
on what happens and what makes it happen. - Wash yourself clean. With simplicity, with humility, with
indifference to everything but right and wrong.
Care for other human beings. Follow God.31a. “... all are relative,” it’s been said, “and in reality
only atoms.” It’s enough to remember the first half: “all are
relative.” “ Which is little enough. “
- [On death:] If atoms, dispersed. If oneness, quenched or
changed. - [On pain:] Unendurable pain brings its own end with it.
Chronic pain is always endurable: the intelligence maintains
serenity by cutting itself off from the body, the mind remains
undiminished. And the parts that pain affects—let them speak
for themselves, if they can. - [On Ambition:] How their minds work, the things they