Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.