Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

Many friends are the key to happiness