This, then, is consistent with the character of a reflecting man--to be neither careless nor impatient nor contemptuous with respect to death, but to wait for it as one of the operations of nature.
From his personal reflections, defining the appropriate philosophical stance towards death.
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For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.
How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.
As thou intendest to live when them art gone out, ... so it is in thy power to live here.
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