We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

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

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency

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

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist

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.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind

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 he neither able nor willing?Then why...

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

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one’s old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one’s soul’s...

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

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

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.

Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not,or, being willing to do so, cannot;or they neither can nor will,or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the...

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously

Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but...

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as the present

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

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

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.

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

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