The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.