Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.