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

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.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.