What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence? But Gods there are, undoubtedly, and they regard human affairs; and have put it wholly in our power, that we should not fall into what is truly evil.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.