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

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.

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.

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

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

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

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.

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims are against the Christians and the Christians are against Jews and the Jews are against Arabs – I mean, it just it goes on and on and on.

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically.

These kids don’t know what to revolt against, so they just completely ignore it, which is a very frightening thing.

I don’t have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.