Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

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