The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

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.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it