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.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.