We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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.