I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

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

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

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.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

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

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

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

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

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

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.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

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

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

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

You dont develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

The greater the difficulty the more the glory in surmounting it.

Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken and that causes it to sway.

Dont fear the gods. Dont worry about death What is good is easy to get and what is terrible is easy to endure.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading fertility it is therefore more delightful and more honourable to give than receive.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings supreme good

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

Stranger here you do well to tarry here our highest good is pleasure.

We recognize pleasure as the first good innate in us and from pleasure we begin every act of choice and avoidance and to pleasure we return again using the feeling as the standard by which we judge every good.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.