A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
A lie gets half way around the world before the truth can get it's pants on.
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
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.
He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Justice... Is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
Stay calm and pedal on.
