You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.