There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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.