It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.