I will watch the crab with a cold eye and see how long you can run rampant.

If you want to stop drinking, look at the intoxicating person with a sober mind.

①Do things outside yourself bother you? Take some time out of your busy schedule to learn some good things, and don’t be distracted by external things. But be careful not to fall into another mistake. Those who pursue hard all their lives without any goal, and every impulse and even every thought lead nowhere. Those people are also childish and boring.

②Don’t waste the rest of your life daydreaming about other people’s things, unless you can connect those fantasies to the same goal, because it will really delay you from doing other things. If you fantasize about what so-and-so is doing, why, what he is saying, what he is thinking, planning, and other such things, all these are enough to take you away and make you unable to Guard your own master's reason with all your heart.

——"Meditations"