How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.