He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

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

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

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

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.