The fear of death stems from the view that it is fearful. - Epictetus

Don’t look for it in externals; it isn’t in the body, and, if you doubt me, just look at Myron or Ophellius. It isn’t in wealth, look at Croesus, or look at the rich of today: you’ll see how unhappy they are.

Immediately prescribe some character and form of conduce to yourself, which you may keep both alone and in company.

This World is one great City, and one if the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends — first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each.