| The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. |
| It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. |
| Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. |
| Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. |
| In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. |
| The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. |
| It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. |
| We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need. |
| He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others. |
| Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. |
| The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. |
| Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. |
| Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. |
| Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. |
