"Live out your life in peace, be silent, and be content with what is given you."

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

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

"What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy. But this consists in keeping the demon within a man free from violence and unharmed, superior to pains and pleasur…"

"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…"