To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

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

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.