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

Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.

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

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.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

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

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.