As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

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

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

Live your life without attracting attention.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.