In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.