“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

“We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our too great love for it makes us restless with fears, burdens us with cares, and exposes us to insults.”

“The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”

“No past life has been lived to lend us glory, and that which has existed before us is not ours.”

“Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging about doing.”