So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.

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

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.