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

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

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.