Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

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.