"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

"Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. There is only one fruit of this terrestrial life: a pious disposition and social acts."

"Consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at which we are angry and vexed."

"The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is all he has and that he cannot lose what he does not possess."