Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Conquer yourself and the whole universe is yours.

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.