"If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not give him more money; diminish his desires."

"The greatest security of all is to be found in a quiet life withdrawn from the multitude."

"Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the possession of friends."

"Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated."

"Every pain is easy to despise, for the one who has considered it in its real limits."