Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

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

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

He who eats my bread, does my will.