...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

Poverty is the mother of crime.