The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.