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

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

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

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

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

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.

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

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

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

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

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

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

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

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

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

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

I love too deep and show too little. Because of cuts so deep covered up by so little.

If you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all, punish not at all

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.

Always give a little more of what you promised.

Take a little time each day to appreciate the simple things in life, and you will have already discovered one of the secrets of lasting love.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

In all my almosts I lose you little by little.