It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

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

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.