Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
