"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it, as she wills everything else."

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

"Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. There is only one fruit of this terrestrial life: a pious disposition and social acts."

"Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou wilt lose thy opportunity for doing anything else."

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