Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

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

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.