Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

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

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.