"If thou art able, make it so that all men shall live as thou wouldst have them live. If not, live thyself as thou wouldst have them live."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

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

"The soul of man is a portion of the divine breath, and therefore it is immortal. And if it is immortal, it is not afraid of death."

"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change existing things and to make new things like…"