If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

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

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.