When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

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.