The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

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.