Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.