The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself