Only the just man enjoys peace of mind

Peace of mind happens to a man only after he has developed deep insight, only after he starts seeing the things in the right perspective.

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly."

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as the present

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