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.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

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

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.