We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.
The cry of the flesh bids us escape from hunger, thirst, and cold; for he who is free of these and expects to remain so might live in happiness even with Zeus.
Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.
I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary.
One who understands the limits of the good life knows that what eliminates the pains brought on by need and what makes the whole of life perfect is easily obtained, so that there is no need for enterprises that entail the struggle for success.
If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich.
Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of the whole man, by far the most important is the acquisition of friendship.
The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
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