The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

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.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.