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

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.

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.

Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

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

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

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

Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

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

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

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

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

Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!

One accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

It’s always been in me. I just had to be confident enough to let it out.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.