Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

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

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.