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

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.