Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.