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.

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

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