Maxims on Secluding One’s Self.

“Avoid whatever pleases the crowd: avoid the gifts of Chance. Halt before every good which Chance brings to you, in a spirit of doubt and fear; for it is dumb animals and fish that are deceived by tempting hopes.” — Seneca
“Hold tight, then, to this second and wholesome rule of life — that you indulge the body only so far as is needful for good health.” — Seneca
“Despise everything that useless toil creates as an ornament and an object of beauty. And reflect that nothing except the soul is worthy of wonder; for to the soul, if it be great, nothing is greater.” — Seneca
“Believe me, those who seem to be busied with nothing are busied with the greater tasks; they are dealing at the same time with things mortal and things immortal.” — Seneca
“What Chance has made yours is not really yours.” — Lucilius
“The good that can be given, can be removed.” — Lucilius
