Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

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

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

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.