Remember that all is opinion.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.