Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.