Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

Tomorrow will give us something to think about