We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.
Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .
Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.
The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
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?
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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.
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