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.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

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

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.