"Ask yourself: Is this necessary?"

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"To say that 'men cannot live without women' is to confess that men are not self-sufficient, and that their well-being is dependent on something outside themselves."

"He who is afraid of death is afraid of loss of sensation, or of a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another k…"

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it, as she wills everything else."