Make a good use of the present.

Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.