It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

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

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.