My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

I would rather be sick than idle.

No crime has been without a precedent.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.