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.

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

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

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