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

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.