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

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

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

Live your life without attracting attention.

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

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.