Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

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

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.