“He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.”

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 a little is not enough for you, nothing is.

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.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

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

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.

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.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.