Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

Live every day as if they last.

Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised; and the rememberer and the remembered; and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree; no not anyone with himself; and the whole earth too is a point.

From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.

Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses

Surrender your life serenely, as serenely as the One who takes it from you

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.