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

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.

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.