Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.
He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.