“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.”

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.

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 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.