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.

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

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

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.