The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then...

When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with...

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

[A] right understanding that death is nothingto us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to itan infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving forimmortality. For there is...

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is...

If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

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, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.

Il culmine del piacere è la pura e semplice distruzione del dolore.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Non abbiamo tanto bisogno dell’aiuto degli amici, quanto della certezza del loro aiuto.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

Don’t fear the gods,Don’t worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure.

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

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it...

Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?Long time men lay oppressed with slavish...

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore the true belief that death is nothing to...

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)