Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.

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

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.