A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.

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

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

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

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

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.

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