A thousand approaches lie open to death.

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.