 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. |
| Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. |
| 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. |
| It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. |
| Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. |
| A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. |
| We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. |
| Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. |
| Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. |
| You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. |
| If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. |
| The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. |
| Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. |
| 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. |
| Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. |
| 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. |
| Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Topics: Death |
| The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. |
| There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. |
| I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. |
