If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

One should count each day a separate life.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.