We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

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.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

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.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it