I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

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

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.