1. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
2. It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
3. To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
4. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
5. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
6. Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
7. Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
8. The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
9. The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it…..Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
10. Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
