Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.