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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

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.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

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

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not coming, and, when death is coming, we are not.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

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