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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
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 never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
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.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
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.
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.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
