Without confidence, there is no friendship.

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

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

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

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.

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

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.