Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.