Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured

Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly."

You too are going to die, and that's because you too were fortunate enough to have lived. You may not feel this. But go stand on a cliff sometime, and maybe you will.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.