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

• It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

• Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

• Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

• In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

• The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

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

• We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.

• He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.

• Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

• The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

• Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

• Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

• Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.