“Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.”

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.

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

Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…

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.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

It is freedom that allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are, we can all be freer.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you’re heading for a crash. What I’m against is blind flying.

It is only the truth that can make a man free, it is only the truth that can make a man live.

It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is