Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.