Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.