If you wish to write, write.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?