Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.
Realize that true happiness lies within you.
How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.
The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.
I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.