If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.