"Consider the life of a man of forty, and the life of a man of ten thousand years; what difference is there? For both the past is gone, and the future is uncertain."

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

"How many things are there of which I have gained a knowledge, not by the help of reason, but by experience!"

"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."

"Wipe out imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the ruling faculty in its own power."