Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

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.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.