Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

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.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.