Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

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 is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.