Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.
Being happy is knowing how to be content with little
The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.