To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

All thinking begins with wondering

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.