Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.