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

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.

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.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good