Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

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

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

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

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.