Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

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

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.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.