Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.