The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as the present.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain for himself.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

Death is nothing to us, for when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.