Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.