The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

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.

It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.