"Reverence the gods, and help men. Life is short."

"Observe that everything which exists is already in a state of dissolution and change, and, as it were, putrefaction and separation."

"How many things are there of which I have gained a knowledge, not by the help of reason, but by experience!"

"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…"

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."