The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.