"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…"

"The universe is change; life is opinion."

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

"Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? How can any action be …"

"Consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at which we are angry and vexed."