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

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.