Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.
Do everything like someone is gazing at you.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.