In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.