Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.