Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.