It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.
There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.
Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.
The term “incorporeal” is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.
Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.
Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear?
Without confidence, there is no friendship.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.
Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.
The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.
We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness...
The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.
Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.
Many friends are the key to happiness.
Virtue consisteth of three parts, – temperance, fortitude, and justice.
But the universe is infinite.