"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly."

"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."

"The soul of man does violence to itself, first of all, when it becomes an abscess and, as it were, a tumour on the universe, so far as it can."

"Fools! not to be able to reflect how many things a man may gain by means of not saying and doing what is useful to himself, and how few things by saying and doing what is useful to himself."

"He who is afraid of death is afraid of loss of sensation, or of a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another k…"