The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

Many friends are the key to happiness

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

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.