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.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.