Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

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.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

I consist of a little body and a soul.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?