He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Do not get too attached to life for it is like a sailor’s leave on the shore and at any time, the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness.
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous — even death is terrible only if we fear it.
Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day.
