"Because your life is not a series of unconnected periods, but a single, continuous stream, it is only in the present that you truly live."

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from…"

"What is evil? It is that which you have seen many times. And when you are about to be angry with anyone, remember that man is not evil, but only acts in error."

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

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."