"Soon you'll be ashes or a skeleton. A name at most, or not even a name. But name is sound and echo. The things we want in life are empty, foul, or trivial. Like dogs snapping at each other, or childre…"

"The true way to render ourselves happy is to love what we ought and not to hate what we ought not."

"Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or still uncertain."

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

"Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away."