Being happy is knowing how to be content with little.
Do everything like someone is gazing at you.
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
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.
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
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.
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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 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.