"Look to the things themselves, and consider what they are when they shall lose their coverings and see their nakedness: how many things that seem great and terrible and wonderful are then seen to be o…"

"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life."

"Soon you'll be ashes or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name; but name is sound and echo, and the things we value so highly in life are empty and rotten and paltry, and like little dogs bi…"

"To expect that your friends will not be false is foolish."

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul, and is not to be sought for from external things."