He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.