The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

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

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

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

It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.