I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.
Live your life without attracting attention.