If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.