All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

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.

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.