If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

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?

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

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