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

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

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Be content to seem what you really are.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard the idea of longevity and cease loving this life, instead committing these things to God and, believing that no one ever escapes destiny, to consider, with that in mind, how we may live the best possible life in the time that remains.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.