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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.

There comes a time in every person’s life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

Life on earth is like college and we’re all just trying to pass the courses.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.