Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.