If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.
Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.
Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.