I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!