I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.
The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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.
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.
He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure
An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.
Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.
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.
Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.
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