Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.