Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

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.