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.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

But the universe is infinite.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help