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

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

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