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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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