A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
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.
There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.
A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.
Do everything like someone is gazing at you.
The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.
If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
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.
It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.
If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.
No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.
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