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.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

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

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

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

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.