"All things are cause for either laughter or weeping."
"We learn not in the school, but in life."
"The hour which gives us life begins to take it away."
"It is well to be born either a king or a fool."
"The best ideas are common property."
"If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor; if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich."
"Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)"
"A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach."
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one."
"Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams."
"The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy."
"Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy."
"Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life."
"Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature."
"I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling."
"It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die."
"Haste trips its own heels, and fetters and stops itself."
"The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future."
"An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will."
"Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor."
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
"Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it."
"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
"There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it."