When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

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

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.