Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.