Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.