The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

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

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.