"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, the…"

"Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."

"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…"

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

"Ask yourself: Is this necessary?"