The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

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.

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