 The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. |
| Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Topics: Friendship |
| The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. |
| It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. |
| Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. |
| If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. |
| It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. |
| I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. |
