If You Do Not Wish To Be

If What The Philosophers Say Be True, That All Men's Actions Proceed From One Source; That As They Assent From A Persuasion That A Thing Is So, And Dissent From A Persuasion That It Is Not, And Suspend Their Judgment From A Persuasion That It Is Uncertain, So Likewise They Seek A Thing From A Persuasion That It Is For Their Advantage.

In Every Affair Consider What Precedes And What Follows, And Then Undertake It

Who Are Those People By Whom You Wish To Be Admired? Are They Not These Whom You Are In The Habit Of Saying That They Are Mad? What Then? Do You Wish To Be Admired By The Mad?

If You Have Anything Better To Be Doing When Death Overtakes You, Get To Work On That.

Do Not Laugh Much Or Often Or Unrestrainedly.