You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.