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.
The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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.
