Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

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

Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

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