He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.