"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly."

"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, 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…"

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

"Every soul, the philosopher says, is unwillingly deprived of truth."