Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

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.

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