There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.