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

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

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.