If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.