The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

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

The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.

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

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.