I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.