Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

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.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.