The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason; and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.