Marcus Aurelius — "Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."

"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…"

"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in that it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall."

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"Nothing has more power to broaden the mind than the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."