The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

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.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

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.