The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.