You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

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.

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.